Yuzo Kawashima(川島雄三Kawashima Yūzō) (4 February 1918-11 June 1963) was a notable Japanese filmmaker, most famous for making tragi-comic films dealing with the lives of lower-class Japanese people, especially those involved in petty crime or employed in red light districts. He was a key influence on Shohei Imamura, who worked as his assistant director and referred to him as "my teacher." Imamura later remade Kawashima's 1957 film Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate as Eijanka.